Stone Vessel

Curtiss R. Brock

1993

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Bear's Paw quilt, red on white, found in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Jug, Randolph County, Alabama, or possibly Sligh's Mill Pottery, ash-glazed stoneware
Pitcher with one strap-handle, two lines of combed or incised decoration around shoulder, raised ring just below lip, dark green glaze
Large "Gunboat Quilt" of brown silk taffeta, at its center an embroidered basket overflowing with appliqued flowers and two tiny strawberries and a small butterfly, surrounded by an embroidered wreath of similar flowers, like flowers adorn each of the four corners, the quilt front is divided by a geometric pattern of two vertical and two horizontal bands of small dark-blue taffeta squares, the back a medium brown polished cotton, the edges bound with blue taffeta.